Jon Jones Offers To Vacate Heavyweight Title After UFC 309, Meet Alex Pereira For BMF Crown

Simply days out from his heavyweight title return at UFC 309, Jon Jones has made the attention-grabbing supply to vacate that crown ought to he beat Stipe Miocic, and urged he would then compete for a symbolic BMF championship in opposition to former two-division champion, Alex Pereira.

Jones, a former two-time undisputed gentle heavyweight champion, is ready to return to motion this weekend at Madison Sq. Backyard, snapping a prolonged hiatus in a reworked fundamental occasion struggle against the returning former champion, Miocic.

Sidelined by way of a pectoral tear damage, Rochester native, Jones most just lately headlined a pay-per-view card again in March of final yr in opposition to former interim titleholder, Ciryl Gane.

And snatching the heavyweight crown vacated by Francis Ngannou, Jones would wrap up a dominant opening spherical guillotine choke submission win over the French contender.

Overtly discussing plans to doubtless skirt a title unification pairing with present interim champion, Tom Aspinall ought to he defeat Miocic this weekend in ‘The Huge Apple’, Jones has now urged he would ever go so far as to vacate the heavyweight crown, in the hunt for a symbolic title affair with Brazilian favourite, Pereira.

Jon Jones suggests BMF title struggle with Alex Pereira after UFC 309

“It’d be cool to struggle over the heavyweight championship however I’d additionally willingly quit the heavyweight championship,” Jon Jones instructed SportsNet on Monday throughout an interview. “I walked away from the sunshine heavyweight championship. I’d like to stroll away from this one as nicely on high, on [my] personal phrases, good head in your shoulders, making a lot of cash. I like the place that I’m in proper now.

“Combating (Alex) Pereira for the ‘BMF’ belt, that may be cool,” Jon Jones defined. “We each have two belts in two weight lessons and the evening we fought we’d each be preventing for our third belt, which might be the ‘BMF.’ How cool would that be?”